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| Make it work, then make it good | 2024-08-31 | daily/2024/08/31/make-it-work-then-make-it-good |
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d7eol | The main objective when writing software is to make it work. | true |
Your first objective when writing software is to make it work by - any means necessary.
If you're doing test-driven development, you want to get a failing test to pass as quickly as possible.
You want to get your application into a working state, whether that's hard-coding some values, focusing on the happy path implementation, holding off on implementing design patterns, or something else - you just want the code to work, even if it's a "bad" solution.
Once it's working, you can refactor it into a good solution.